Technical Institutes - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

individuals who can and want to embrace the disruption, who understand how to thrive in ambiguity and respond quickly to its unforeseen challenges. These aspects, the leader realized, depend more heavily on an individual’s temperament and outlook than they do on... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

ten most innovative programs in the United States even though the program was then in its 66th session. In the MBA classroom, Crum offered courses in corporate finance, bank lending, financial institution strategy, and investment... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS

Stanford Business School, INSEAD in France, IESE in Spain, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "EDP has helped create a working relationship between institutions with a truly global point of view," says Clark. "The Bank and the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

31 Mar 2023
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How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

through the standard American dream script of from high school directly to four-year degree completion, directly onto career or further education? MDP: I think we need to figure out division of roles and articulation of those roles between View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2007
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To The Rescue

Each day, the chaos that is one sliver of modern India arrives in the form of 13,000 phone calls to the tranquil 37-acre campus of the Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) outside Hyderabad in the southern state of Andhra... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

01 Jun 2013
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Lesson Plans

honest." —Michael Horn (MBA 2006) Education Executive Director, The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, San Mateo, California Carl Christopher (MBA 2006) Director of School Operations, Partnership for LA Schools... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

is needed. So how did Houghton, who would become renowned for his inclusive, team-oriented, nice-guy leadership, get everybody’s attention? “I hit them over the head with a two-by-four and said, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do,’” Houghton recalls with a smile. That... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People

Today, The Kraft Group is a global company that employs over 5,000 people worldwide. Many of Boston’s medical, educational, and cultural institutions have benefitted from the Krafts’ philanthropy, a tribute to Kraft and his late wife... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

management consulting and technical problem solving for industry. In 1949, ADL hired John Magee (MBA 6/'48) to help it expand into the new field of "operations research"; during decades of subsequent service as ADL's president and... View Details

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

Appalachian settlement schools that functioned as both educational institutions and community centers. After serving as an elementary school, a boarding school, and a public school, Pine Mountain transitioned in the 1970s to a center for... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four

school in that capacity was rejuvenating for me as well. Suddenly I was in a situation where I could really think about different kinds of business problems and potential opportunities because I wasn’t constrained by my own operating reality. It was a great way to give... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Technical and Trade Schools; Technical and Trade Schools; Technical and Trade Schools; Technical and Trade Schools; Technical and Trade Schools; Technical and Trade Schools; Technical and Trade Schools

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

Wall Street: From Managing Money to Saving Souls on the Streets of New York by Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In The Missionary of Wall Street, Auth shares dozens of riveting and often funny stories about ordinary... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission

carry out our mission.” Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has sponsored a Leadership Fellow almost every year of the program’s existence. “Any established institution runs a major risk of becoming staid, stodgy, complacent, and... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

competitive advantage. The sector’s unique hybrid status means that new entrants require not only the standard mix of tech and business savvy vital to the success of any startup, but also a high degree of what Gotsch calls “domain expertise” in financial services—a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Mar 2008
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Where Are They Now?

fresh approaches to problems. The distinction caused a ruckus at HBS, which saw itself as a school of management. But the article held sway, winning Zaleznik the McKinsey Award for the best HBR article that year. Eventually, HBS would redefine its mission to emphasize... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; retirement; leisure; writing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

the Top: How Director Conversations Shape Culture by Melinda Muth (MBA 1981) and Bob Selden Australian Institute of Company Directors The authors examine how director conversations shape organizational culture. They provide board members... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money

private sector; establishing institutional restraints on power; and improving public-sector management. Organizations such as TI, TFFIED, and its member groups are also making a difference. Notes Wells, “Governments don’t like to be rated... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?

From that vantage point, he observed social media's key role in the Arab Spring and was so impressed that he joined Twitter as an adviser. When the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan in 2011, Kondo saw how Twitter enabled the country's View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

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